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e-Sword Update
There is an interesting new update to e-Sword 9 that fixes one user interface problem that I’ve always disliked but never really mentioned as I thought it was minor. Well it appears to have been major enough that it warranted a change from Rick Meyers, the developer.
The feature in question is the personal notes feature. Instead of being part of the Commentary section, it is now on its own (see lower right section in screen shot above). Plus there is a new Journal note feature in that new section to go along with Bible notes and Topic notes. The Journal is date driven instead of verse or topic driven.
That makes this a really cool update on its own. But there is also a new search function called Regular Expressions. I haven’t played with it yet, but it shows up in the Search Dialogue when you click on the drop down box
So what is REGEX or Regular Expressions? The best phrase to describe it would be maybe special wild card searches. The best explanation I found was in the e-Sword-user.org forum.
What is a regular expression you say? That takes a little explaining and a lot of practice and I do not have the latter. Examples: "heaven[s]" (quotes only used to show theREGEX) would match heaven or heavens. "[hH]eaven[s]" would match Heaven, heaven, Heavens, or heavens. "J…s" would match Jesus. But would also match Jebusite and Jerusalem. Add "\b" means a word boundary. So, "J…s\b" would match Jebus (see Jdg 19:10 NIV), or Job’s (see Job 1:5 NIV), or Jesus (see NT
) "\b[Rr]{1}[au]n" would match Ran, Run, run, ran, running, Range, etc…
So basically, you can find different forms of words using English searches. This might be very helpful.
A last feature that is not apparent yet is inline notes and cross-references in the Bible text. Most other Bible software has this. Those are the popup and clickable links in a verse that represent cross references and translations notes. For example, look at the text of WORDSearch 9 below. the word “faithfless” in v. 13 has a little “w” in brackets. When clicked the link shown below appears. It can either be clicked and the reference will be displayed or simple hold the mouse cursor over it and the verse appears in a popup window.
This is now supported in e-Sword. It will be nice once modules take advantage of it.
Nice upgrade. So get it now.
Thanks to Ruben Gomez for the update info.
Kevin and anyone else reading this posting, I won my ipad and I am very happy with the usability of it in
teaching for its portability and the fact that I can carry with me all
my resources in one small package.
But I would like you to help me find an app that would allow me to
create a sudy or sermon outline that I could link from to all the
veses in my study notes/outline.
Riht now I have my notes in Pages, click out to my bible and go down
the list of bookmarks that I set up previusly for a particular class
study. This means that I must reset my bookmarks prior to each new
class, and there is a small lag going from Pages to the bible app.. I
know that will be better with multitasking and the new OS, but it
would be wonderful if I could touch the vse reference from my outline
and have it come up the bible verse. Please email me when something
like that is available.
I kmow of nothing that will do this for the iPad. The only suggestion is to keep notes within the bible app notes feature. As you say multitasking will make this better, so wait till next month when 4.2 is supposed to be released.
I downloaded eSword and at the same time some different versions a total of $79 worth. Somewhere I thought I saw a NIV free download to add to eSword please let me know if you have any sites that offer that version. It has been one of my favorites and honestly I thought it was included with the eSword package, but now I can not find what gave me that idea. If I thought it was not included while I bought the others I would have purchase it at the same time. But I don’t want to do another transaction now with my credit card. Any help at all would be appreciated. Thanks, your Brother in Christ, Mark Borders
I know of no legal way to download the NIV for free. There is a tool that snags it from the online Bible sites, but due to copyright issues I’m not going to give it attention here. I don’t use it and think the cost of buying is not astronomical especially compared to other Bible study software. Sorry.